Ken Krauss
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

Professor Krauss is the Associate Director for Science at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin, Louisiana. He studies the role of stress physiology on forested wetland water budgets, measures wetland carbon fluxes, investigates sea-level rise vulnerability of mangroves and tidally influenced freshwater forested wetlands, and assesses tidal wetland restoration projects. Ken has had a particular interest in international science outreach and in developing agency partnerships for most of his career. Ken’s lab at LUMCON seeks to find new ways to measure or estimate wetland carbon and water fluxes that might normally be limited by spatial scale or funding. His current projects focus primarily in the southeastern United States, but he has active projects on several Pacific islands and Asia. Dr. Krauss affiliated with the Mangrove Lab at Tulane University in 2024, and has collaborated with Dr. Friess on sea-level rise vulnerability studies in New Caledonia, Singapore, and Malaysia since 2010. Ken currently collaborates with the Mangrove Lab to determine tidal wetland carbon fluxes on DoD installations in south Florida and on a coastal Louisiana barrier island with a mix of saltmarsh and mangrove. Ken is active with Dr. Friess within the blue carbon science community.
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